So saw I there, but of a better semblance In point of artifice, with figures covered Whate’er as pathway from the mount projects. I saw that one who was created noble 737 More than all other creatures, down from heaven Flaming with lightnings fall upon one side. 738 I saw Briareus smitten by the dart 739 Celestial, lying on the other side, Heavy upon the earth by mortal frost. I saw Thymbraeus, Pallas saw, and Mars, 740 Still clad in armour round about their father, Gaze at the scattered members of the giants. I saw, at foot of his great labor, Nimrod, 741 As if bewildered, looking at the people Who had been proud with him in Sennaar. 742 O Niobe! with what afflicted eyes 743 Thee I beheld upon the pathway traced,